Sash-cord holder.



{WITNESSES P. A-. SAUNDERS.

SAS H 001m HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED JULY 29, pea.

/ Patnt'ed Ap1i20, 1909.

1 INVEINTOR a, W v AT-T ORNEIYE lieho rammar ram-t. SAUNpEBs;forlwrncnns'ras, MASSACHUSETTS;

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"Specification ogii'e'bters Patent.

Ifatented A951 20', 1 909.

, To all whom it may concern:

15Winclister, in thecounty of Middlesex and K Stateof Massachusetts, have invented cer- 5 tainrnewand useful Improvements in-Sash- ,Corjd Holders,-of .-which the following 'is aspecification. I I I This invention has for its object to provide 1' improyed means for coupling a sash cord to a 1o, windowsash without. the necessity of removing'thesash from the window casing.

. V *Theinvention consists in the improved dei ljvicewliich I willnow proc'eed to describe and claim.

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sentsa perspective viewljof a sas cord ho der gflpbddylng Inyfinventionn Fig. 2 represents -a s 1 de elevatl the 'same, and an edge which The.samar rass ah the Sa -Par1 asl t e gflr sf i beam-mas a-she Worm f0 WmdOWfsaSh,

portion. including of the horizontal to'p bars 1 3 represents the usual longitudin of the sash to receive the cord 14, the cord e-' as ,ing shown dotted lines. in Figs. 2 ,"3,' and 4.

The groove-1,13" usually. of substantially semi-circular: form,: as indicated Fig. 4,

4 f and," one endportion of the cord 14, is inserted m the groove and suitablyjsecured therein;

. eh engages an enlargement of the oove,

.th1s connection requiring the remov'a of the i :sasli from the. casingiprior to th ejremoval of "a broken cordifromthfiashmn 4 5' tion of another cord? *t pw dl elongated sheet 'metal sheath stantiallyi'semi' 1'. cula' 111451563? adapted to closely tthel Ic rdQ and' isfmade of relatively-' thin shect'metal so'that'its interposition between .55 the-cord andthe wall of the groove not i Application filedluly 29,112,013. serial No. use.

thinness of the metal, the fl'ange is formed by l the holder is made is-of the the..-sash to which the *re. resents a sec-5 Sheath '15 by suitable means, such as a y providing'the cordwithknot of the sheath.

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old comprises an i with it the attached end of the cord unt attaching flange bears on the up er and of cause the cord to project materially from the I ,groove".

At the ripper end of the sheath is an "attaching flange bent ba'ckwardly from the sheath at right angles thereto, and adapted to bear upon the up er endof the sash, as indicated in Fig. 3. aid flange is formed from the same piece of metal that constitutes the sheath.- To compensate for the necessary bending one end portion of-the blank from which the holder is formed in Such manner as to. provide two flange layers or members 16 and 17, connected by aneck 18, whichform's "the outer end of the flange: I ;the bottom layer 16 from the sheath forms at? neck 19 connectin the sheath with the The bending of attaching flange. T e blank from which eneralform representedin Fi 5, in whic the dotted 7 line ca indicates t a l ne on which themetal is bent to form the neck' 19, while the line 3 3 indicates the line on which the metal is bent 1 to form the neck 18. 'One end of the blank is provided with an extension 20 which is so,

bent; downwardly alongthe line z-e across the neck 19', so that the lip 20 bears upon the upper'endof the sheath, 15, and reinforces H p i I theme]; 19 so that said neck is not liable to parts of onei'of the verticalside bars and one bebentor distorted by the upward strain exerted upon it by the weight attached to a1 move. the sash cord. The .flange formed as dewhlch'is formedin each of theverticaf ed es scribed. is provided with screw holes 21 to receive the screws which attach the flange to the sash.

. Qn e end of the cord is attached to the P 22 passed through the cord and engaged with holes 23 formed for its reception in the sides In case the sash cord becomes broken, the described holder ma be removed from the sash after the with rawal of the attaching screws. The end of the cord attached to the heath may then be removed and another cord substituted for it, after which the sheath withthe attached cord may be in-' serted in the gr0ove 13, the sheath being 'moved endwise into the groove, and carrying fi. An important feature of my 'invention is the reinforced attaching flange made integral the 410's with the sheath nd composed of two thicknesses, the top layer of the fia, e having the reinforcin lip Whiehstrengt ens the neck 19. As a ovestated, the metal ofwhich the sheath ismade is neces'sarilysrelatively thin in order to prevent any material rojection of the cord from the gro0ve413. he thinness of the metal is compensated for by the described construction of the attaching edges of a sash. The holder is therefore adapted to be applied to an old sash, no' change in the form of the standard sash cord 1 groove in the sash being required excepting possibly a slight enlargement of the upper end of the groove, to enable it-to conform to the slight. spreading of the sides of the sheath at its upper end. 7 This enlargement may be readilyand quickly made by a jack knife Itwill be seenthat the holder made as described. from a single piece of thin sheet metal, is of very inexpensive construction,

and that its adaptability to be attached to a sash withoiit'niaterial ehangein' the form of the cord groove enables cheaply applied.

I caim A sash cord fastener comprising a sheet metal sheath formed to embra :e a portion of a sash cord, and adapted to be moved endwise in a sash cord groove, and an attachin flange integral with the sheath and forme by bending the sheet metal to form a twolayer flange, the inner layer of which is connected by a neck with the u per end of the sheath; the outer-layer of t e flange being bent backwardly upon the inner layer, an having a reinforcin l'p which is bent over .said neck into the s eath.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

- FRED A. SAUNDERS.

. Witnesses THOMAS ELLIS, CHARLES F. BROWN.

it to be quickly and 

